I am about to embark on some custom work on a DezRez XML import into WordPress, and want to gauge if there is any interest in this as a plugin, please use the comments to express issues and thoughts. My plan is, rather like my Rightmove XML converter, is to let WP All Import ( [Read the full article…]

This issue is fairly common on servers that are running Apache with mod_sec ( mod security ). Mod security is a complex system that looks at the sort of web traffic ‘bay guys’ use to hack servers and stops them. In this case it is thinking that your actions are suspicious and blocks them. This [Read the full article…]

WordPress 4.8 has just been released, and many web designers have reported that their layout have been mucked up with this release. *** UPDATE *** Since writing this blog post I have written a plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-paragraphs-option-to-text-widget/ – that solves this problem in a very neat way. *** There could be multiple reasons for this, but [Read the full article…]

The following is a Gravity Form Form, that allows you to submit a post via the front end. It can submit as ‘draft’, ‘pending review’ or even ‘published’. Feel free to try it, and if you include a valid WordPress tip or other news I may even publish it.

Occasionally a WordPress plugin is not templated, so difficult to customise the output, so in these circumstances one solution is to use jQuery to modify the output. Now this is not pure and a bit hacky, as ideally you would change the code that is producing the output. However the situation is just sometimes that isn’t [Read the full article…]

Parcelbright is a uk parcel service for businesses. Woocomerce is the leading WordPress ecommerce plugin. I am in the process of building a plugin to integrate Parcelbright into WordPress using their API. Features could include Create a shipment: View a shipment: Book a shipment: Track a shipment: Cancel a shipment: There is quite a lot [Read the full article…]

With Genesis when you select archives to display excerpts, you don’t get a read more link or button, just some dots. Although you can click on the title, this isn’t intuitive or user friendly. The following code snippet can handle this add_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘bw_excerpt_read_more_link’ ); function bw_excerpt_read_more_link( $output ) { if( ‘post’ === get_post_type() ) [Read the full article…]

Capsule CRM is a great cloud based CRM, and I have developed in the past custom integrations, e.g. between Gravity Forms & Capsule. So when a new lead comes in it is lodged directly into Capsule CRM via the provide API calls. The problem is not exactly simple as various checks need to be made, [Read the full article…]

The Genesis Social Share plugin is one of the must have plugins for Genesis sites. See https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-share/ I wanted to display these icons (just like the ones on this post) except on posts in a specific category. I had to read the plugin code to work this out. Fortunately the code is an example of beautifully [Read the full article…]

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